Norf London

Spurs supporter

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@Dan4Barnet Utter drivel from career politician Dan Tomlinson, now changing horses midstream to miraculously dump his heroes Starmer and McSweeney (who elevated him to a position in government he has no qualifications for) and suddenly becoming a devolution supporting Burnhamite Hypocrite!

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@Dan4Barnet @emergenteffects Starmer's enforcer Morgan McSweeney appointed you to a prominent position despite your total lack of experience or suitability and you have behaved like Starmer's poodle ever since. What now?

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@Dan4Barnet @siennamarla Don't take on Nick Ferrari again Dan. You are out of your league and with your heroes Starmer and McSweeney gone you will probably soon be out of office too.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@HeadWarriorTWM The thing about Nadia is that she is incredibly dim.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@jeremycorbyn Agreed Jeremy, Communism is the way forward and you should be our Communist leader.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@RedRosa91940184 No Audrey, a rather sad old confused woman who would perhaps be better playing bingo with a different group of old people.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@uk_sf_writer And Starmer was only in as a protest vote against the Tories. Labour has no one of any substance or quality in their ranks. The last time Burnham ran for their leadership he finished 4th just in front of Dianne Abbott.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@andrewfeinstein I believe you are appearing at the Marxism 2026 event soon Andrew? That is all we need to know about you. Marx himself of course was also a vile antisemite. It seems to run throughout Marxist thinking.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@Dan4Barnet @Helen_Whately Who are you backing Dan? You are a bit quiet aren't you?

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@UKPoliticsLive What is that?

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@UKPoliticsLive You are completely wrong. Perhaps if you read the Gambling Commission's data you might have a more informed opinion. The problem gamblers you mention make up less than 1% of the total and the industry makes almost nothing from them. I suspect your knowledge of gambling is zero.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@lennylaw I would love to come but having just checked my diary I find that I am washing my hair that day.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@PoetSteveWallis @DuskyMoko No Steve we now know that Woolwich jury member Maud Dromgoole has exposed herself as a supporter of Palestine Action. She was not the only activist on the jury. The CPS are aware of this. Their original verdicts were compromised hence the need for a retrial with an impartial jury

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@MaritaLalaguna The CPS should now investigate this woman and indeed the jury she was part of at Woolwich Crown Court who brought in an outcome that clearly represented a perversion of justice. This is a very serious crime so she may end up in prison with her mates soon.

[Norf London @bryanpayne5]

@afuahirsch @zeteo_news Seriously Afua, are you describing this bunch of delusional left wing hacks as 'the best journalists?'
It's embarrassing.

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

"At the moment I'm not charging people for breast enhancement..."

What a boob by Zack. This is Carry On Up the Greens.

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[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

This on the BBC:

"This" writes the sensible @matthewsyed "is why I’d argue (perhaps optimistically) that this week offers a window of opportunity for the BBC. The courageous move would be to acknowledge Prescott’s findings, perhaps even to admit what is, I think, undeniable: that the corporation suffers from institutional bias. I mean, it is not as if it is alone in this. A survey last month by Electoral Calculus showed that 75 per cent of what it called “the establishment” voted for left-of-centre parties at the general election. The think tank More in Common found that many institutions are dominated by “progressive activists” who constitute just 13 per cent of the population.

And it is worth briefly noting how we got here. Perhaps the original sin was the progressive march through our universities: since the 1960s the ratio of left-wing to right-wing academics has shifted from 3:1 to 8:1. This has not just tilted young, often impressionable minds in a decisively more liberal direction but had further consequences too. It is striking, for example, that graduates today migrate in huge numbers to metropolitan areas (nearly 40 per cent of Russell Group graduates with firsts and 2:1s are living in London within six months of leaving uni), where they join narrow friendship networks connected to the institutions at which they work, creating a double whammy of social convergence.

This is why ensuring true diversity of views at an elite institution like the BBC is about far more than diversity of colour, class or gender. It is about appointing senior editors who (wait for it) are sympathetic to Reform UK; hiring many more who are super-bright but didn’t go to university; constantly encouraging new recruits to express their opinions rather than converge on the predominant ones; perhaps above all, recognising that impartiality is not a destination but an orientation requiring a disciplined awareness of one’s limitations and an insistence on transparency, method and the humility to constantly test assumptions against alternative ones.

The BBC will instinctively feel defensive this week and may be tempted to argue that it has all the necessary policies in place. I’d humbly retort (as a friend) that this would be a terrible strategic error. The role of the BBC has never been more important and it is not too late to preserve it from those who wish to bring it down. But all executives should remember that while a liberal world-view predominates within the walls of the organisation, a majority of licence fee payers believe in the following heresies (ie, common sense): national borders matter; love of nation is admirable; biological males shouldn’t compete in women’s sport; people should be judged on merit, not colour; western history is broadly admirable, not shaming.

Indeed, how about reading out the previous paragraph at the outset of every editorial meeting? It might help mitigate the otherwise irresistible tendency towards elite groupthink."

https://t.co/CIwF7UDvHG

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The most important news from today's reshuffle: